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Builds, Repairs, Show Your Machines! => Collections & Pictures => Topic started by: parallelmotion on December 15, 2019, 03:54:15 pm

Title: Re: Fritz Neumeyer's little toy Westinghouse steam engine
Post by: St Paul Steam on December 15, 2019, 08:37:40 pm

I rather like that Brent, very unusual & different from the Norm (you have a fine eye for the unusual ), thanks for showing it .

Title: Re: Fritz Neumeyer's little toy Westinghouse steam engine
Post by: Hero on December 15, 2019, 07:09:04 pm

Very unusual. Thanks for showing it.

Title: Re: Fritz Neumeyer's little toy Westinghouse steam engine
Post by: parallelmotion on December 15, 2019, 05:48:30 pm

Nick,
I had an almost identical one some 20 years ago and a German member posted one on the "other" toy steam forum a while back. Yes, the entire boiler and firebox are nickel plated although some of the plating has worn/burnt off around the front of the firebox.

Title: Re: Fritz Neumeyer's little toy Westinghouse steam engine
Post by: Nick on December 15, 2019, 03:58:24 pm

What a rarity this must be  :o  Do you know of any others out there?

Is the entire boiler/firebox nickel plated? Such a nice looking piece  8)

Title: Fritz Neumeyer's little toy Westinghouse steam engine
Post by: parallelmotion on December 15, 2019, 03:54:15 pm

Here's my first run of another little toy by Fritz Neumeyer. It's the only toy version (that I'm aware of) of the famous Westinghouse compound steam engine. While the original had two vertical cylinders and an overhead valve gear, the toy has a single oscillating cylinder hidden inside the engine housing; the overhead valve gear is just a dummy.  Fortunately the only restoration required was a new gasket for the safety valve.
https://youtu.be/hE8NqDblC-Y